The Madonna and Child in Glory Appearing to a Kneeling Young Man

Prints and Drawings

1655/59

Ciro Ferri
Italian, 1634–1689

This precious, small, finished and signed composition was one of some 100 images Roman Baroque artist Ciro Ferri made to be engraved. In this case, French engraver Guillaume Chasteau reproduced the composition but changed the supplicant to a prisoner offering chains to the Virgin and Child. Marks identifying previous owners of this sheet Giuseppe Vallardi and Carlo Prayer (both from Milan) appear in the lower corners of the work.

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Artist: Ciro Ferri
Title: The Madonna and Child in Glory Appearing to a Kneeling Young Man
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1655–1659
Medium: Black chalk and brush and brown wash, incised with graphite, heightened with white gouache, on ivory laid paper, prepared with brown wash (recto); graphite or black chalk on ivory laid paper (verso)
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Ciro Ferri"; verso, upper center, in red chalk: "D 200."
Dimensions: 13.8 × 10.3 cm (5 7/16 × 4 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.938
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Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 39, cat. 14 (ill.).

Brussels, Musée Communal d’Ixelles, “De Giorgione à Tiepolo: Dessins italiens,” 1993, pp. 196–97, fig. 88.
London, Douwes Fine Art Gallery, “Master Drawings Presented by Adolphe Stein,” 1988, cat. 20 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 39, cat. 14 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Giuseppe Vallardi (1784/94–1861/63), Milan [stamp (Lugt 1223) recto, lower left, in blue]. Carlo Prayer (1826-1900), Milan [stamp (Lugt 2044), recto, lower right, in red]. Pacini (c. 1860-1880), Florence [stamp (Lugt 2011) verso, lower left, in black]. Maria Skira Celia Mendez de Bernasconi, c. 1977 [inscriptions verso, center, in blue ballpoint pen]; sold, Christie’s, London, Dec. 8, 1987, lot 44 to Adolphe Stein, Paris; sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 11, 2001, lot 52, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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